Simla, May 22, Many deeds of conspicuous valour performed by Indian troops during tthe last phase of the operations load.
the capitulation of Amba legi were described ina cable re= ceived from an Indian army omeial Aiter one of the companies eaptuted a position it was found possible to hold it unless an enemy Mmachine-gun firing almost at polntblank range: was silenced.
The 200-yard approach to the gun lay along a narrow ridge. The company commander called for two volunteers whereupon two Sepoys of the Bangash tribe. from the Kohat istrict immediately stepped forward, 'They took the machine-gun nest and held it for two hours until they were killed, During a charge carried out under heavy firo_against "a strong enemy position a Sepoy from the Ferozepur district' was separated from the rest of his section in a thick mist, Later }he was found lying dead beside four Tallans he had killed, "wilh. his bayonet still sticking in the body of Another soldier saved several tives, both of our own troops and. Talia prisoners, when the pin of a hand. grenade became accidentally loosened, Hee seized the grenade, scrambled five yards over the rocks and hurled into raving, where it exploded harm-
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